Hi Rick Great little utility. Worked well.. Thanks Ang Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:35:27 +1000 Subject: [THIN] Re: Office SP3 breaks TIF and MDI extensions From: ulrich.mack@xxxxxxxxx To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Hi Angela, There are 2 system commands that let you list and change server file associations. These are: assoc - associate file extension with file type Example: C:\assoc .mdi .mdi=mdi_auto_file ftype - associate a file type to an executable Example: C:\ftype mdi_auto_file mdi_auto_file=C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~2\Office12\OIS.EXE /shellOpen "%1" In this example I've got Office 2007 installed. So if you wanted to fix the mdi file association, you'd run: assoc .mdi=mdi_auto_file ftype mdi_auto_file=C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~2\Office12\OIS.EXE /shellOpen "%1" The last command could also be: ftype mdi_auto_file="C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\OIS.EXE" /shellOpen "%1" Doing this on a whole farm isn't too hard if you download the PSTools utilities http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896649.aspx Copy psexec.exe to c:\windows and try something like this (it's one line): For /f "skip=3" %i in ('qfarm /load') do psexec \\%i c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe /c assoc .mdi=mdi_auto_file & psexec \\%i c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe /c ftype mdi_auto_file=C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~2\Office12\OIS.EXE /shellOpen "%1" qfarm /load generates a list of on-line servers in your farm. If we read this list in a FOR look that skips the first 3 lines which are a title, header etc then we have the names of all the online servers in your farm. psexec \\servername command will execute the command on the remote server. An & allows us to run two commands using the same variables on the same command line. If you want to turn this command into a batch file, remember to replace all the %i with %%i, but don't replace the %1 with a %%1. regards, Rick -- Ulrich Mack Quest Software Provision Networks Division On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Angela Smith <angela_smith9@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi I have deployed Office 2003 SP3 to our dev environment expecting it to break certain file associations based on article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938813. I can re-associate TIF by manually launching MS Office document Imaging on each Citrix Server and reassociating the extension via Tools/Options. However it doesn't fix the MDI associations. Is there an easy way to re-associate MDI to MS Office document Imaging for all users? A script that sets both would be great if one exists... Thanks in advance Ang Sell your car for just $50. It's simple! _________________________________________________________________ Net yourself a bargain. Find great deals on eBay. http://a.ninemsn.com.au/b.aspx?URL=http%3A%2F%2Frover%2Eebay%2Ecom%2Frover%2F1%2F705%2D10129%2D5668%2D323%2F4%3Fid%3D10&_t=763807330&_r=hotmailTAGLINES&_m=EXT